Reading High School teacher Brian Page, left, and former UC professor John Morris developed Awesome Island, a financial literacy board game.

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Sarah Hardee
| Enquirer contributor

There's a place where jobs and good investments are plentiful, entrepreneurship pays off big and where playing your cards right always leads to financial success.

It's called Awesome Island, and it doesn't take long to get there. Classrooms around the globe have been taking students on short, two-hour journeys to the "island" via a financial literacy board game created by two local educators that puts students in the driver's seat. A new, online version of the game is in the works that will allow even more classrooms to take the journey.